Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
I don't intend to get into a name-calling contest here. Everyone has a right to their own opinions and a right to freely express those opinions. Whether or not I agree with them or they agree with me is irrelevant.

That being said, it is incomprehensible to me how anyone can seriously put the life of a violent, dangerous criminal above the well-being of their own family. It shouldn't even be necessary to think about it! If someone attacks me or mine, I will defend them and myself. I would rather die in the attempt than to sit back and watch helplessly as my wife and daughter are raped! Even if the perpetrators did not kill them (and me) I would not be able to live with myself if I didn't do everything physically possible to protect them. The physical and emotional price they would have to pay as a result of such a crime would be far more expensive than the worthless life of the rapist.

Yes, that's right, worthless! Whether you like it or not, there are some people in this world who should not be allowed to live. Rapists, in my opinion, are at or near the top of the list. Probably one step below pedophiles. There are those who, through their own actions, have demonstrated a complete lack of moral character. They think only of themselves, will perpetrate any atrocity, commit any crime, just for their own self-satisfaction. The best thing a civilized culture can do is either exile them or kill them. They are too dangerous to be allowed to remain in society.

I am curious, TYWD. Where do you draw the line? Let us assume that someone has broken into your home and threatened you and your family. You say to just cooperate and he'll probably lock you in a room while he goes about his business. How can you know before hand what his intentions are? How can you assume he will behave "honorably" and not go farther than he'd intended? Can you honestly say that you could sit still and listen to your daughters screams as she is raped and comfort yourself with the knowledge that you didn't kill the guy? If that's the case, if the pain, suffering and emotional trauma your daughter and wife will suffer is worth less to you than the life of that perpetrator, then you are so completely alien (to me) in your thinking that I doubt we could ever come to any form of agreement. And if that scumbag goes ahead and kills you all to keep you from turning him over to the police, my sympathies would go out to your family. But I would have to think that you got what you deserved.
Thorne, I feel sorry for you, apparently you just don't understand what it is to be a liberal, don't you know it's society's fault that all of those poor people out there are addicted to drugs, and most of them don't know but their father is, you should suck it up just like the rest of us liberals, and accept the fact that we had to pay for other people's mistakes. in case you didn't figure it out I am just kidding